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Emma Stone Can Do Anything—Even Lure Michael Keaton Out of Retirement in This Birdman Trailer

If you’ve spent the last 10 to 20 years craving another awesome Michael Keaton project, look no further. The actor reclaims his leading-man cred this fall in Birdman, a dark comedy from Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Babel) with an amusingly meta plot. The film features Keaton as a washed-up movie star famous for playing an iconic superhero on-screen—cough, cough—who attempts to reclaim his past success by mounting a Broadway play. IMDB alerts us that during the course of the film, Keaton’s character, “must overcome ego and family trouble” as well.

As if this spot-on story arc does not sound satisfying enough, the film co-stars Edward Norton as an arrogant stage actor, Emma Stone as Keaton’s on-screen daughter, as well as Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, and Nurse Jackie’s fabulous Merritt Wever. The epic trailer, out today, also teases scenes in which Keaton walks through Times Square in his tighty-whities, Norton wrestles Keaton in his own comically small underwear, and what seem to be flourishes of magical realism. Watch the gorgeous preview above.

The film opens in theaters on October 17, which means that if Fox Searchlight plays its cards right, Michael Keaton could be a candidate in next year’s awards race.